Hi guys. I have a 20GB of ram, and 4GB of swapfile. Do I need swapfile if I have a lot of free ram? Maybe be better to delete it from root partition and fstab?

This all depends on your use case - I think only you can answer that question. If you system never uses more than 75 or 85% of your RAM, then you don’t need a swap file. As @vgaetera said, Fedora now has zram enabled (see Changes/SwapOnZRAM - Fedora Project Wiki ) - so you have a compressed RAM driv…

A lot of ram. Do I need a swapfile?

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vgaetera (Vladislav Grigoryev) February 2, 2021, 1:22pm 4

Actually, disk/file swap can hurt and lowering its priority might not help if some process goes nuts eating all available memory.

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A lot of ram. Do I need a swapfile?

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